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MalwareManufacturingRetail & ConsumerManufacturingInfostealerStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC.

bd_38f04b97485bb418 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 2, 2022

Filed

Aug 17, 2022

To disclose

15 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC.3 incidents on file

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. notified customers of a data breach involving its third-party vendor, Freestyle Solutions, which hosted the ShopRuger.com website. Malware on the Freestyle server captured payment card information (card number, expiration date, security code) and basic identity data (name, address, email) from September 18, 2020, to February 3, 2022. Freestyle detected the malware and notified Ruger on August 2, 2022. Ruger offered identity theft protection services.

California clockDiscovered Aug 2, 2022Notified Aug 18, 202216d CA 60-day OK15 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 683 days
discovery → filing · 15 days

Sep 18, 2020

Begins

Aug 2, 2022

Discovered

Aug 17, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident
Part of FreeStyle Solutions supply-chain incident (2022) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Show 4 more filingsup to 15d gap

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Aug 2 (DE), last Aug 19 (NH) — a 17-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.